Le Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 08:13:23AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > What do you think of this and would you be ready to withdraw a delegation > for a delegate that behaved badly towards another DD (even outside of his > delegated role), that has been warned once by you and that did it again > later on? > > Do you think we can draft a code of conduct for Debian and do you think > you can ensure that it would be respected by delegates?
Dear Raphaël, the role of many delegates is to lead a team, and as such they need good social skills. Biting back people who criticize their work is not a good way to defend their team. In contrary, it turns down contributors and isolates it. I would like to add that aggression is not the only bad behaviour. Refusing answers is also a way to demotivate and put aside people. I think that the role of a delegate is to communicate even with the developers he does not want to work with. (If some people abuse the delegate's time with repetitive requests, that is another story). If a delegate repeatedly misbehaves or fail to communicate, I will ask him to step down in a mid/short term, ideally at the opportunity of a notable achievement. I think that it is important to leave to people a possibility to save the face, expecially with on-line projects like Debian that leave a permanent trace in the Internet search engines. Changing a delegate should not be a personal punishment, but a way to get things done better in Debian, so despite that “we will not hide problems”, I will not have the discussion with the badly behaving delegate in public (but perhaps on debian-priv...@l.d.o if I have the feeling that the Project is expecting it). Lastly, I do not think that we need a code of conduct. I am worried that it would generate too much meta-discussion. I think that it it enough to remind newcomers that when we do not know personnaly the recipient of our messages, there is a high risk that anything too causal will be misinterpreted. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100318011536.ga18...@kunpuu.plessy.org